Anna Apostolidou

 

Anna Apostolidou is a graduate of the Experimental Music High School of Pallini and a graduate of the Department of Social Policy and Social Anthropology of Panteion University. She completed her postgraduate studies with an IKY scholarship at University College London, where she obtained an MA in Anthropology of Art and Visual Culture and a PhD in Social Anthropology (2010) on the anthropological examination of male homoerotic desire in relation to the normative discourse on nationhood. In 2019 she completed her second PhD thesis at the Hellenic Open University on topic of digital education of adult refugees.

 

Anna has published papers in international journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes and has taught anthropology and digital education courses in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Panteion University, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Open University. Her research interests focus on the anthropology of gender and sexuality, refugee education and digital education, surrogacy and experimental forms of digital writing. She has participated in numerous research groups as a postdoctoral researcher and has coordinated research projects with the support of various institutions (ELIDEK, AHRB, PENER, PYTHAGORAS, ERASMUS+, etc.).  She is currently coordinating a research project on Artificial Intelligence, entitled "(A(I)nthropology during the Anthropocene: Hybrid research and creative pedagogy at the limits of the human" (2025-2028, code 23539), funded by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation.

 

She is the author of the following books: Queering the Motherland: male same-sex desire and the Greek nation (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2018), E-learning for adult refugees (Vibliorama, 2019), Bodies that Mutter: Poetic autoethnography and digital textuality (F.A.C. Research Publications, 2022), Reproducing Fictional Ethnographies: Digitally performed anthropological knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Anthropological approaches to digital education (Kallipos, 2023), Visualization and digital critical pedagogies: Insights from anthropology and musicology (with Michalis Cholevas, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023) and An Anthropologist on Sacks (Bloomsbury Press, in press).